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Topic: Blood groups - pure curiosity (Read 3687 times)

This is for pure curiosity. I've just finished my clinical rotation through the blood bank (woo-hoo!) and I wanted to see what kind of variation we had here on this forum. If this poll gets enough votes we should approach the real world frequencies seen of each blood group.

If you're unsure, say so. Maybe it can be determined through familial knowledge.

I have no idea - that's bad, I guess! Although I've had enough tests that I'd know if it was one of the really rare ones.

Re: your research, it would be interesting if atheists generally had a different blood group to the population at large! Maybe our midiclorians are busted?

I wonder how Christians account for the wide range of blood groups? Irish, if you started from a population of two, and we assume they have different blood types (and those types are the ones allowing most diversity), is it possible to get to the number of types we have now?

AB+; I used to contribute regularly until I got turned away for an iron deficiency that my doctor was never able to pin down. That was some time ago; I'll have to go by the blood bank again and see if I pass now.

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Irish, if you started from a population of two, and we assume they have different blood types (and those types are the ones allowing most diversity), is it possible to get to the number of types we have now?

It'd be possible within one generation. If you start with a type A mother/father and a type B father/mother their children can be type A, B, AB, or O with a 25% chance for each type per conception. That's the pairing allowing the most diversity.

However, that's just considering ABO types and not including the Rh typing. If you want to consider the Rh type as well pair together an A+ mother/father and a B+ father/mother and it is possible to get any of the eight ABO/Rh types within the next generation.

However, that's just considering ABO types and not including the Rh typing. If you want to consider the Rh type as well pair together an A+ mother/father and a B+ father/mother and it is possible to get any of the eight ABO/Rh types within the next generation.

Soooo thaaaat ... more people would die from transfusions. And then, when science figures it out, he can go, "OOOOh Yeah, made it that way on purpose ... proof by design!!!" Even if that, you know, makes absolutely zero sense. But, hey, gods and sense ... never the two shall meet.

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I am a regular donor taking part in the interval study ATM. This isn't entirely altruistic as I normally get 2 (TWO!) chocolate biscuits afterwards.

Also I've been told that regular donation is good for your health as when your body replenishes the lost blood you get new white cells sooner than you would normally which improves your immune system.Not sure how much truth there is in that though.

B- for me... Looks like I should be donating blood on a regular basis (besides what I do when building stuff on the weekends and slicing various extremities with power tools)

B- also. I wish I could donate but I always get woozy when I've had blood drawn and after taking a hit to the head at an old job, I can't even see blood without almost (and sometimes actually) passing out.

Ditto for me because of chemo, cancer, and the ongoing anti-cancer meds. I get mixed reports on whether I'll ever be able to donate blood or organs. Some say that some groups will take them, but I can't even think about it until I've been off the meds for five years.

Big bummer, because I'm O- and used to donate all the time.

Last time I saw a blood mobile I went in and thanked everyone, telling them a little of my story. I needed 6 units at various times during my treatment, because I was so very, very depleted. I told them people like them saved my life and everyone got all weepy and gave me a t-shirt.

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If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave.

I never give blood because I get super dizzy and tired. I have pretty low blood pressure naturally, not sure if it is related. I also have AB+ blood, which I think is pretty much the least useful kind in a blood bank (like no one but someone else with AB+ could use it, and there arent' a lot of us) so I use that to assuage my conscience...

I can't give blood because of all the countries I have lived in and diseases I have had. However, I have gotten a blood transfusion-- guaranteeing me a very special place in paradise after Armageddon according to the JW's.[1] Thanks, everyone who donated.